Chapter 5. It Is Your Destiny!—Scripting Complex Gameplay Flow in Kismet

This chapter further deals with Kismet, with a focus on constructing processes that allow you to do more with gameplay, such as creating cinematic effects, creating puzzles, spell-casting behavior, creating a regenerative health shield, or allowing the player to guide a Bot that follows you, and creating a per-session checkpoint.

In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:

• Prefabs including Kismet references

• Swapping control of a Bot using Possess Pawn

• Ways to stop a recurring loop

• Setting up cinematic cameras

• Animating cinematic cameras

• Obtaining a trigger event off a RigidBody

• Creating a firing pattern based puzzle

• Allowing the player to pick up, carry, and place an object

• Exploring 'following' and 'attracting' behaviors

• Creating a regenerative health shield

• Creating a per-session checkpoint series